Lectures on digestion : an introduction to the clinical study of diseases of the digestive organs / by C.A. Ewald ; translated by Robert Saundby.

Date:
1880
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. The title of this book indicates its origin and purpose. I complied with a request frequently made to me, by pub- lishing these Lectures, which were delivered to physicians in this city during the winter session of 1878-79. The physiology of Digestion in the last few years has presented us with an abundance of new facts, which, from their bearing upon digestive derangements, demand our closest attention, but hitherto they have received no general description. The splendid account of the Digestion and Absorption of Food, in the second part of Hoppe-Seyler's Physiological Chemistry, stops short at the standpoint of the chemist and of the text-books. In the following Lectures the interests of physicians and clinicists receive the first consideration, and the arrangement and treatment of the subject-matter are from their point of view. I have endeavoured to be as concise in style as possible, avoiding diffuseness, repetition and oratorical digression. During the last few years I have repeatedly performed